Oral history interview with John R. Foster

Oral history in which John Foster primarily discusses the history of the polio epidemic in North Carolina in the 1940s and subsequent construction of the Central Carolina Rehabilitation Hospital, informally referred to as the polio hospital, in 1948. Foster also discusses school desegregation in Greensboro, specifically the Pearsall Plan, the board's opinion on and plan for desegregation, and the legal and social aftermath of the Brown decision in North Carolina.

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